Tell him your story and he will photograph your wedding. Free.

As a freshman at Princeton eight years ago, Vincent Po came to dread presentations. Many of the students he met there were prodigies, patent holders, heirs to the jet set and heirs to the global elite. Whenever the conversations inevitably returned to Mr. Po, a major engineer from Edmond, Okla., the curiosity of his peers usually dried up after a few questions.
"I felt completely outclassed and inadequate," he said.
In 2015, at the end of the school year, Mr. Po returned At home in Oklahoma, rudderless and depressed. To cheer him up, his parents lent him a guitar and taught him how to cook traditional Taiwanese dishes. Both hobbies were a balm, but neither ignited his Mr. Po asked his parents if they still had the red envelope money he had saved from the past Lunar New Year. They did, and he used the savings to buy his first DSLR camera.
"I had no idea where this would lead, but it was the same as cuisine or guita re – just something to try,” he said.
Photography has since become so much more than that for Mr Po, who is now 26 . In early 2020, he quit his job as an engineer in Providence, R.I., and began photographing weddings for free, living with future married couples for at least two weeks around the wedding date in exchange. His conversations with the couples he photographs became the basis for the detailed profiles Mr. Po posts on his website, Portrait of a Young Couple. There are nearly two dozen profiles on the site so far, which has helped him raise awareness of his paid freelance work while on the go.
ImageM. Po's conversations with the couples he photographs are featured on his website, Portrait of a Young Couple. Credit...Noah Kalina for The New York Times
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Tell him your story and he will photograph your wedding. Free.

As a freshman at Princeton eight years ago, Vincent Po came to dread presentations. Many of the students he met there were prodigies, patent holders, heirs to the jet set and heirs to the global elite. Whenever the conversations inevitably returned to Mr. Po, a major engineer from Edmond, Okla., the curiosity of his peers usually dried up after a few questions.

"I felt completely outclassed and inadequate," he said.

In 2015, at the end of the school year, Mr. Po returned At home in Oklahoma, rudderless and depressed. To cheer him up, his parents lent him a guitar and taught him how to cook traditional Taiwanese dishes. Both hobbies were a balm, but neither ignited his Mr. Po asked his parents if they still had the red envelope money he had saved from the past Lunar New Year. They did, and he used the savings to buy his first DSLR camera.

"I had no idea where this would lead, but it was the same as cuisine or guita re – just something to try,” he said.

Photography has since become so much more than that for Mr Po, who is now 26 . In early 2020, he quit his job as an engineer in Providence, R.I., and began photographing weddings for free, living with future married couples for at least two weeks around the wedding date in exchange. His conversations with the couples he photographs became the basis for the detailed profiles Mr. Po posts on his website, Portrait of a Young Couple. There are nearly two dozen profiles on the site so far, which has helped him raise awareness of his paid freelance work while on the go.